Environmental Audit Select Committee
UK House of Commons select committee
The Environmental Audit Select Committee is a select committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The remit of the committee is to examine how government departments' policies and programmes will affect both the environment and sustainable development.
The Committee was founded in 1997 by the incoming Labour government as a cross departmental select committee with the idea that environmental issues affect a number of departments.
01Membership
Membership of the committee is as follows:
Changes since 2024
| Date | Outgoing Member & Party |
Constituency | → | New Member & Party |
Constituency | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 September 2025 | Pippa Heylings MP (Liberal Democrats) | South Cambridgeshire | → | Roz Savage MP (Liberal Democrats) | South Cotswolds | Hansard | ||
| 21 October 2025 | Ellie Chowns MP (Green) | North Herefordshire | → | Carla Denyer MP (Green) | Bristol Central | Hansard | ||
| 17 November 2025 | Anna Gelderd MP (Labour) | South East Cornwall | → | Alison Hume MP (Labour) | Scarborough and Whitby | Hansard | ||
| 17 November 2025 | Alison Taylor MP (Labour) | Paisley and Renfrewshire North | → | Jonathan Davies MP (Labour) | Mid Derbyshire | Hansard | ||
| 25 November 2025 | Cameron Thomas MP (Liberal Democrats) | Tewkesbury | → | Manuela Perteghella MP (Liberal Democrats) | Stratford-on-Acon | Hansard | ||
| 5 January 2026 | Alison Hume MP (Labour) | Scarborough and Whitby | → | Sojan Joseph MP (Labour) | Ashford | Hansard | ||
| 8 June 2026 | Carla Denyer MP (Green) | Bristol Central | → | Adrian Ramsay MP (Green) | Waveney Valley | Hansard | ||
022019-2024 Parliament
The chair was elected on 29 January 2020, with the members of the committee being announced on 2 March 2020.
Changes 2019-2024
032017-2019 Parliament
The chair was elected on 12 July 2017, with the members of the committee being announced on 11 September 2017.
| Member | Party | Constituency | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mary Creagh MP (Chair) | Labour | Wakefield | |
| Dr Thérèse Coffey MP | Conservative | Suffolk Coastal | |
| Geraint Davies MP | Labour (Co-op) | Swansea West | |
| Zac Goldsmith MP | Conservative | Richmond Park | |
| Caroline Lucas MP | Green | Brighton Pavilion | |
| Kerry McCarthy MP | Labour | Bristol East | |
| Anna McMorrin MP | Labour | Cardiff North | |
| John McNally MP | SNP | Falkirk | |
| Dr Matthew Offord MP | Conservative | Hendon | |
| Dr Dan Poulter MP | Conservative | Central Suffolk and North Ipswich | |
| Joan Ryan MP | Labour | Enfield North | |
| Alex Sobel MP | Labour and Co-op | Leeds North West | |
Changes 2017-2019
| Date | Outgoing Member & Party |
Constituency | → | New Member & Party |
Constituency | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 December 2017 | Vacant | → | Glyn Davies MP (Conservative) | Montgomeryshire | Hansard | |||
| Colin Clark MP (Conservative) | Gordon | |||||||
| 22 January 2018 | Vacant | → | Robert Goodwill MP (Conservative) | Scarborough and Whitby | Hansard | |||
| Philip Dunne MP (Conservative) | Ludlow | |||||||
| 4 June 2018 | Glyn Davies MP (Conservative) | Montgomeryshire | → | James Gray MP (Conservative) | North Wiltshire | Hansard | ||
| 25 February 2019 | Joan Ryan MP (TIG) | Enfield North | → | Alex Cunningham MP (Labour) | Stockton North | Hansard | ||
| 8 May 2019 | Alex Cunningham MP (Labour) | Stockton North | → | Ruth Jones MP (Labour) | Newport West | Hansard | ||
| 13 May 2019 | Colin Clark MP (Conservative) | Gordon | → | Derek Thomas MP (Conservative) | St Ives | Hansard | ||
| 15 July 2019 | Dr Dan Poulter MP (Conservative) | Central Suffolk and North Ipswich | → | Jeremy Lefroy MP (Conservative) | Stafford | Hansard | ||
042015-2017 Parliament
The chair was elected on 18 June 2015, with members being announced on 20 July 2015.
Changes 2015-2017
052010-2015 Parliament
The chair was elected on 10 June 2010, with members being announced on 26 July 2010.
Changes 2010-2015
| Date | Outgoing Member & Party |
Constituency | → | New Member & Party |
Constituency | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 December 2011 | Simon Kirby MP (Conservative) | Brighton Kemptown | → | Paul Uppal MP (Conservative) | Wolverhampton South West | Hansard | ||
| 3 December 2012 | Sheryll Murray MP (Conservative) | South East Cornwall | → | Matthew Offord MP (Conservative) | Hendon | Hansard | ||
| 10 December 2012 | Ian Murray MP (Labour) | Edinburgh South | → | Chris Evans MP (Labour and Co-op) | Islwyn | Hansard | ||
| 11 November 2013 | Paul Uppal MP (Conservative) | Wolverhampton South West | → | Vacant | Hansard | |||
| 25 November 2013 | Richard Benyon MP (Conservative) | Newbury | → | Dan Rogerson MP (Liberal Democrats) | North Cornwall | Hansard | ||
| 16 December 2013 | Vacant | → | Caroline Spelman MP (Conservative) | Meriden | Hansard | |||
| 18 March 2014 | Chris Evans MP (Labour Co-op) | Islwyn | → | Mike Kane MP (Labour) | Wythenshawe and Sale East | Hansard | ||
06List of chairs
| Member | Party | Constituency | Term | Parliament | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Horam | Conservative | Orpington | 12 November 1997, 16 July 2003 | 52nd Parliament and 53rd Parliament | |
| Peter Ainsworth | Conservative | East Surrey | 16 July 2003, 14 December 2005 | 53rd Parliament | |
| Tim Yeo | Conservative | South Suffolk | 15 December 2005, 6 May 2010 | 54th Parliament | |
| Joan Walley | Labour | Stoke-on-Trent North | 10 June 2010, 30 March 2015 | 55th Parliament | |
| Huw Irranca-Davies | Labour | Ogmore | 18 June 2015, 25 January 2016 | 56th Parliament | |
| Mary Creagh | Labour | Wakefield | 10 February 2016, 6 November 2019 | 56th Parliament and 57th Parliament | |
| Philip Dunne | Conservative | Ludlow | 29 January 2020, 30 May 2024 | 58th Parliament | |
| Toby Perkins | Labour | Chesterfield | 11 September 2024, present | 59th Parliament | |
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